Candidate for
Board Member; Tri-City Healthcare District

Following is a list are professional associates and friends who have expressed opinions about me or my work in the past.

• "Kathleen...Your determination, strength, grit, perseverance, fortitude and diligence in wanting to keep our hospital accessible, viable, and a source of excellence is laudable. The mark of a mature society, government and people is not of our disagreements, but how we resolve these conflicts collegially without rancor and to the goal of all. Your efforts for persevering under arduous public personal and professional conditions are exceptional."
  Lucas J. Bonagura M.D., Former Board Member,
  Tri-City Hospital [Healthcare] District

• "Ms. Sterling "...I would like to reiterate once again how refreshing it is to have a board member so committed to our institution that you approach us to educate yourself about our needs and some of the unique problems and challenges that we face in our department."
  Cary R. Mells, MD, Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine,
  Director, Tri-City Emergency Medical Group

• "Due to your efforts, many people will be able to improve their lives in the future... because of your interest and more importantly, your involvement in community affairs. Please accept my most sincere congratulation for a job well done and my best wishes for continued success in the future."
  Congressman Howard "Buck" McKeon (R), Chairman,
  Postsecondary Education, Training and Lifelong Learning
  Subcommittee to House Education and the Workforce Committee

• "Ms. Sterling: I want to personally thank you for all of your work to make our National Summit...such a great success. This was an enormous amount of work to be done in a such a short amount of time--much of which coincided with the holiday season--but somehow you and your team got everything done with talent, determination, and grace. The result of all your personal efforts was an outstanding summit. You helped us provide effective leadership in focusing the nation's attention on some very important issues. I really am amazed by what everyone accomplished. Thanks to everyone for all of your efforts to help make the gathering such a great success."
  Al Gore
  Vice President of the United States of America

• "I have known Kathleen for some time and am familiar with her commitment and experience in the field of health care services...She has been involved with the issue of health care on the local, state, and federal levels and has a great deal of experience in interpreting and implementing health policy."
  John Garamendi, Former Senator California Legislature [California Insurance Commissioner & Lieutenant Governor]

• "We valued your thoughtful presentation and assure you that your comments will be forwarded to Kimberly Belshe, Director, Department of Health Services...in the development of community health programs to address the continuing healthcare needs of multicultural populations. We appreciate your valuable testimony on health and social conditions as well as your perspectives on how to promote healthy communities."
  Lia Margolis Task Force on Multicultural Health and
  Calvin Freeman Chief Office of Multicultural Health

• "Ms. Sterling ...has an excellent working familiarity with Medicare, Medi-Cal, prepaid health plans, and Hill-Burton hospital construction funding. This combination of skills and background in health funding and reimbursement programs gives Ms. Sterling the ability to be an effective advocate for your efforts toward working with government, employers, consumers and insurance companies."
  Art Letter, Commissioner California Health Facilities Commission

• "Ms. Sterling...Our experience with complaint investigations and compliance reviews of health facilities leads us to endorse efforts like yours to clarify to health care consumers and providers the requirements of this important program. Improved dissemination of information, one of your chief aims, can only benefit facilities' compliance status, minimize complaints and improve consumer satisfaction. My staff will be available to assist you in any way possible toward these goals."
  Donald K. Morales, Director Voluntary / Compliance Outreach Division
  Office of Civil Rights Regions IX

• "...a natural leader and is well known and respected for her skills as a strong collaborator and coalition builder, especially at a time when resources are becoming increasingly scarce, and when collaborative partnerships are becoming a necessity, we need visionary leaders of which Kathleen is one in a million."
  Julie Matsuomoto MSPH, RD., Member
  CA Refugee Health Advisory Committee

• "Kathleen... is a strong proponent in assuring that healthcare consumers and the general community's needs are considered in the bigger picture of service delivery, especially literacy issues."
  Teresa Nuno, Policy & Program Development
  Multicultural Area Health Education Center

• "Ms. Sterling has shown a remarkable record of achievement in the areas of government participation, health services, and marketing consulting. She has done effective work in a wide variety ...related to health sciences and participation in health services agencies. She has demonstrated an ability to communicate her positions effectively...Her experience has also included securing funding and carrying out research for a number of health services operations. I think all of this shows a very steady performance and a determination to undertake worthwhile tasks and do them well. Beyond this I find Ms. Sterling to be a very pleasant, attractive, articulate lady. She has the necessary social skills to succeed in public affairs and to be popular among her colleagues as well. I have no hesitation in recommending her for positions or tasks within the general areas of her pasts interests and achievements. I am sure she would be a very effective worker."
  James H. Myers, Professor of Marketing
  Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management Center
  Claremont Graduate School

• "...I heartily endorse any effort Ms. Sterling undertakes. In short she is a model of the excellent qualities to be found: intelligent, experienced, and highly motivated. Ms. Sterling, has qualities of moral commitment, particularly in the area of healthcare services which, coupled with her natural talents and interests would make her an excellent employee. She is a "self-starter" who has successfully acquired grants for the agencies at which she has worked, worked on contracting and consulting in health services, and has done independent investigation and organizational analysis in these areas. She would do well in work dealing with the public, she is considerate, gets along well with people and presents herself well."
  Judith A. Merkle, Associate Professor
  Department of Government, Claremont McKenna College

• "I've seen her in action as a researcher in health law and health policy...Ms. Sterling's skills demonstrated in research, especially her tenacity in following obscure leads and her ability to sort important from unimportant details make her an excellent student of the law. . . We have a number of Boards and Commissions whose activities related to health care (my field) are hard to follow. Ms. Sterling has been helpful to me in tracking down records, policies set, and results achieved and anticipated by a number of these entities. She is personable, well spoken and relates well to people of different socioeconomic and educational levels... She also has a talent for integrating data from a variety of sources, into patterns. For example she did some analyses of information from a variety of sources that will help my colleagues and me to develop a consortium for assuring early intervention for HIV/AIDS patients under the Ryan White Title II grant from HERSA."
  Virginia Vollmer, PhD., RN, Board member Regional AIDS Interfaith Network & Faculty Member, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences